Chennai, 5th June 2023: Chennai Urology and Robotics Institute (CURI) Hospital is a 75 bedded super-specialty hospital started in December 2018, in OMR, Chennai, dedicated to the treatment of renal diseases, offering the very best in patient care in Urology, Nephrology, Uro Gynecology and Uro Oncology. Headed by one of India’s senior most and respected Urologist, Dr.P.B.Sivaraman and one of our country’s most experienced Robotic surgeon, Dr.Ananthakrishnan, CURI Hospital is a premier institute for treatment of renal diseases and has successfully completed more than 600 robotic surgeries. It is also a kidney transplant center and one of the first hospitals in India to pioneer Transperineal Biopsy and UroLift procedure in treatment of BPH.
CURI is one of the first stand-alone, single Robotic Surgeon hospital team, equipped with the latest in technology and medical expertise. It was built on the core values of absolute integrity in patient care, empathy, affordability and making available the most recent advancement in medical technology to our people. We also believe that patient care does not end with the surgery. Through our social initiatives like Indian Prostate Cancer Foundation, Prostate Cancer Support Group, Dialysis Support Group, The Dementia Care Foundation and Renal Diet at your door step, we have hand-held the patients throughout their recovery phase.
CURI hospital is proud to celebrate 600+ Robotic surgeries done and thank the entire team at Curi hospital who shared our dream and vision.it is also to celebrate our patients who have boldly fought cancer and have and have been an encouragement for us to do even better.
To encourage and educate the future Robotic Surgeons, we launched the “CURI Hospital Robotic Urologic Surgery Fellowship” in the year 2020 as a mark of our first anniversary. This fellowship programme provides hands-on training to mould surgeons in the various aspects of Robotic Urologic Surgery. CURI hospital has been recognized as a training center for Vattikutti fellowship in (urology)We feel proud that we have trained many Robotic Surgeons through our fellowships, who in turn have gone out to spread the ethics and skill learnt at our hospital to the benefits of patients in their part of the country.
At this juncture, CURI Hospital deems it as its responsibility to create awareness among the future Robotic Surgeons and people about robotic surgery. CURI Hospital celebrated over 3 days. First day, awareness and live demonstration of the Da Vinci Robot was done for college students and staff on June 2nd. On Saturday, 3rd June 2023 CME program was conducted for Urologists an post graduates in association with Madras Urological Association. Our surgeons demonstrated how the robot works and its advantages over laparoscopy and open surgery. This event helped give hands on training session on Robotic Stimulator . On 4th June a public awareness programme was conducted where Mrs. Akhila Srinivasan, Director, Shriram Life Insurance Co. Ltd was the Chief guest. Cancer survivors who underwent robotic surgery also spoke about their experience and rehabilitation after Robotic Surgery.
